with host Fred Child

Hector Del Curto's great-grandfather and grandfather both played tango in Buenos Aires. Now, he carries on that tradition, as one of today's great masters of tango. On Friday's Performance Today, we'll hear Del Curto play the bandoneon in concert at the Aspen Music Festival.
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Sometimes the sound of the L.A. Philharmonic is so big, you would think it could move mountains. On Thursday's Performance Today, we'll go to Los Angeles to hear the orchestra perform with earth-shaking results.
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Beethoven borrowed a tune from a popular opera when he wrote his Gassenhauer Trio; it was a song that everybody was singing in Vienna in 1797. On Wednesday's Performance Today, we'll hear a performance of Beethoven's Trio from an all-star concert in Bridgehampton, New York.
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On Tuesday's Performance Today, 20-year-old violinist Simone Porter joins us to perform a piece which she describes as a journey through the five stages of grief: Ernest Bloch's Nigun.
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The Trumpet Society of Paris once asked Camille Saint-Saens to write a special piece for them featuring trumpet and small ensemble. Saint-Saens declined; he thought that the trumpet would overpower the group. But a year later, he reconsidered. On Monday's Performance Today, we'll hear the resulting piece: Saint-Saens' Septet with trumpet.
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In 1791, the clarinet was still a work-in-progress; it hadn't fully been accepted as a member of the orchestra. Mozart's Clarinet Concerto helped change that. On this weekend's Performance Today, we'll hear it from a concert in Zurich, Switzerland.
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The New York Philharmonic has been in existence since 1842, and their very first concert featured music by Beethoven. They still love to play Beethoven, and they do it so well! On Thursday's Performance Today, we'll hear conductor Alan Gilbert lead the New York Philharmonic in Beethoven's Symphony No. 1.
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In 1791, the clarinet was still a work-in-progress; it hadn't fully been accepted as a member of the orchestra. Mozart's Clarinet Concerto helped change that. On Wednesday's Performance Today, we'll hear it from a concert in Zurich, Switzerland.
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Felix Mendelssohn had been reading about Italy and was so excited to travel there for the first time. On the day he arrived, he wrote home to his family, saying: "Ahhhh, Italy at last! ...and I am basking in happiness!" In addition to great happiness, his trip inspired something else: his Italian Symphony, which we'll hear on Tuesday's Performance Today.
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